Elements of Composition and Rhetoric: With Copious Exercises in Both Criticism and ConstructionAmerican Book Company, 1889 - 416 Seiten |
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... clause " when I had read the papers . " This clause contains a subject and a predicate , but , for completeness of meaning , depends on some word in the succeeding clause . Such clauses are subordinate , or dependent , and sentences ...
... clause " when I had read the papers . " This clause contains a subject and a predicate , but , for completeness of meaning , depends on some word in the succeeding clause . Such clauses are subordinate , or dependent , and sentences ...
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... clause " with special reference to those dependent , or subordinate , prop- ositions , introduced by connectives . CLAUSES . There are three kinds of clauses : ( 1 ) The adjective clause ; ( 2 ) The adverbial clause ; ( 3 ) The ...
... clause " with special reference to those dependent , or subordinate , prop- ositions , introduced by connectives . CLAUSES . There are three kinds of clauses : ( 1 ) The adjective clause ; ( 2 ) The adverbial clause ; ( 3 ) The ...
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... dependent clause of comparison . Statement 5 becomes a participial phrase . Statements 6 and 9 are expressed as co - ordinate phrases . Statement 7 is given in the words not only . " Statement 8 is expressed by the word " excellent ...
... dependent clause of comparison . Statement 5 becomes a participial phrase . Statements 6 and 9 are expressed as co - ordinate phrases . Statement 7 is given in the words not only . " Statement 8 is expressed by the word " excellent ...
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... sentences . To contract a com- pound sentence into a complex sentence , we convert one of the independent members into a clause ; to contract a complex sentence into a simple sentence , we convert the dependent clauses into words or ...
... sentences . To contract a com- pound sentence into a complex sentence , we convert one of the independent members into a clause ; to contract a complex sentence into a simple sentence , we convert the dependent clauses into words or ...
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... clauses to prepositional phrases with nouns or participles as the principal words : 1. Tell me how old you were when I first met you . 2. The fact that he was there has been clearly ... dependent clause TRANSFORMATION OF ELEMENTS . 57.
... clauses to prepositional phrases with nouns or participles as the principal words : 1. Tell me how old you were when I first met you . 2. The fact that he was there has been clearly ... dependent clause TRANSFORMATION OF ELEMENTS . 57.
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accented adjective clause adverb adverbial clause Anapestic beautiful birds called complex sentence composition compound sentence conjunction conjunctive adverb connected dependent clause DIRECTION discourse earth English examples EXERCISE expression eyes feeling feet figure flowers following sentences give hand hath heard heart heaven hence honor hope iambic pentameter idea Inchcape Inchcape Rock kind King language light live look Lord meaning metaphor Metonymy mind modifies nature never night noun o'er object paragraph participle person phrases poetry predicate principal pronoun proposition prose punctuation Rhetoric rhyme Richard Penderell RULE sail Saxon sense simile simple sentence snow sometimes soul sound speak speech statement stood style sublime subordinate conjunction sweet syllables Synecdoche T. B. ALDRICH tences tetrameter thee things thou thought tion trees Trimeter trochaic truth verb verse voice wind words writer